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Alexander Trowell

Baritenor, Director

Alexander was raised in South London and started his musical training as a chorister at Southwark Cathedral. He continued music-making at City of London School. Whilst still at school, Alexander studied at Junior Guildhall with joint-first-study singing and composition and second study violin/viola, held a Junior Choral Scholarship at Southwark Cathedral, and the Organ Scholarship at All Saints, West Dulwich. During his gap-year, Alexander was organ scholar at St. Mary Magdalene, Richmond. Alexander is in his fourth year reading for a degree in Classics at Corpus Christi College, where he was previously the Organ Scholar. Alexander now holds a choral scholarship at Keble College, he is the cantor at Campion Hall, and directs Oxford-based early music ensemble, Antiquum Documentum. He was formerly a member of The Schola Cantorum of Oxford and was cast as Dr. Daly in the Oxford University Gilbert and Sullivan production of The Sorcerer in Trinity Term 2023. He currently studies singing with Luise Horrocks having previously studied with Sam Queen, Rachel Sherry and Kate Mapp.  He has studied the organ with Stephen Disley and Peter Wright.

Jarek Jankowski

Tenor, Co-director

Jarek is a theologian, whose research explores the status and role of ‘reason’ in Christian thought and practice, drawing on dogmatic theology, philosophical theology/philosophy of religion, and theology and the arts. His thesis, supervised by Judith Wolfe, examines ‘analogy’ in twentieth- and twenty-first-century British theology, including figures like Austin Farrer, Herbert McCabe OP, Rowan Williams, John Milbank, and others. His research has been published in the Journal of Anglican Studies (on analogy in the thought of E. L. Mascall) and Religious Studies (on problems with the notion of ‘conceptual idolatry’).

Jarek is also a working liturgical musician, singing as a lay clerk in the Choir of St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh. As well as singing Tenor with Antiquum Documentum, Jarek contributes to the research and implementation of our liturgical reconstructions.

Ed Gaut

Bass, Organist

Edward is the Master of Music at Pusey House, where he enjoys the variety of the musical offering, which includes playing the organ, directing the Chapel and voluntary choirs and cantoring for mid-week services. In addition, Ed is the organist of Campion Hall, Oxford and accompanist of the Oxford Bach Choir. He currently studies organ with Christian Wilson.

Ed read Music at Keble College, Oxford, where he was Organ Scholar (2022-2025), accompanying the pattern of weekly college services. Whilst at Oxford, Ed studied conducting with Will Dawes and organ with David Ponsford (as part of the Oxford-RAM scheme), having previously studied organ with Adrian Bawtree and Stephen Farr.  Before going up to Oxford, he spent a year at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied with Anne Page and David Titterington. He leaves Oxford at the end of the academic year to take up the organ scholarship at Canterbury Cathedral.

Lois Heslop

Soprano

Lois is a Soprano, Oxford Physics graduate and DPhil in Nuclear Fusion Engineering at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Lois is a Choral Scholar with the Magdalen Consort of Voices and the University Church in addition to her role at Pusey House, and a former Graduate Choral Scholar at The Choir of The Queen’s College Oxford.

Lois performs regularly as a soloist and in consort with leading ensembles including Antiquum Documentum, Orchestra VOX, the Instruments of Time and Truth, the Oxford Baroque Players, and the Delius Singers. She was a Section Leader of both the London Youth Choir and London Youth Chamber Choir. Opera and Musical Theatre credits include Rose Maybud (Ruddigore), Iolanthe (Iolanthe) and Katerina Cavalieri (Amadeus). Most recently, she was the Director of Oxford University Gilbert & Sullivan Society’s The Sorcerer and the lead (Professor Keane) in the UK Premiere of Off-Broadway production Fermat’s Last Tango.

Lois was also a first study violin and baroque recorder at CYM at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Co-Principal of South London Youth Orchestra and the Nevis Ensemble, and leader of the CYM Weir Quartet, where she opened for the Kronos Quartet at the Barbican. Lois takes her vocal studies with Lisa Howarth.

Maddy Bellotti

Soprano

Cosima Clara Gillhammer

Mezzo

Cosima is a Career Development Fellow in Medieval English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and regularly sings with a range of leading Oxford ensembles, including Antiquum Documentum, Antiphon Chamber Choir, and the choir of the University Church. She is also a long-standing member of Southwell Consort, a London-based group focusing on chant and early polyphony. She has previously been a member of St John’s Chapel Choir and St Peter’s Chapel Choir in Oxford, as well as the University Choir of LMU University of Munich. Highlights of Cosima’s singing career to date include performances of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis at the Royal Festival Hall with the UK Parliament Choir and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 at the Philharmonic Hall in Munich.

Cosima’s academic research focuses on medieval culture and liturgy, and she is particularly interested in the intersection between singing practice and this field of research. Her book Light on Darkness: The Untold Story of the Liturgy is partly influenced by her experience singing ornamented polyphony with Antiquum Documentum.

Veronica Tarka

Mezzo

Josh Clough

Tenor

Josh is a final year undergraduate reading Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at Keble College. His choral journey started at the age of 11 as a treble in the Tiffin Boys’ Choir under the direction of Simon Toyne, where he was given the opportunity to perform at the BBC proms and various operas and concerts in and around London. Highlights of Josh’s early singing career include performing in La Boheme and Tannhauser at the Royal Opera House, and performing in Bernard Haitink’s 50th anniversary BBC Prom.

Since his days as a treble, Josh has flourished as a tenor and outside of AD you can find him singing in various London churches. Whilst at Oxford, Josh held choral scholarships at both Keble College and Pusey House.

John Morshead

Baritone

John was raised in London and sang as a treble chorister at the Temple Church, London for eight years under Roger Sayer, where his vocal studies began under Anita Morrison. Before coming to Oxford, John continued his vocal training under Kate Mapp for two years. John is now an Oxford-based Baritone who sings as an Academical Clerk at Magdalen College. He currently studies with Giles Underwood. John performs regularly with some of Oxford’s leading ensembles such as the Oxford Baroque Players directed by Francois Cloete, the Consort of Voices under Mark Williams, the Delius Choir under Alexander Pott, and the Oxford Bach Soloists directed by Tom Hammond-Davies, with whom he is a scholar for the 2023-24 series. More recently, John joined Antiquum Documentum in late 2023, and looks forward to working with the group in the future.

Daniel Greenway

Bass

Currently, Daniel is senior organ scholar at Keble College, Oxford reading for a degree in Music. He began his musical studies as a chorister at Liverpool Cathedral. While there, he developed a keen interest in the organ, becoming a student, and later scholar playing regularly for services. During this time, he studied with Ian Tracey. Although primarily an organist, he is a keen pianist and has studied at the junior department of the Royal Northern College of Music. During this time, at his former school, Blue Coat Liverpool, Daniel helped to launch a campaign to restore the school’s Father Willis instrument. He was one of the founders of a school organ scholarship programme that aims to allow young people from all backgrounds to learn the instrument.

As well as giving recitals in his home city, he has won recital prizes to play at various Cathedrals and venues around the country. Recently, they have included Queens and Merton Colleges in Oxford, Coventry and Truro Cathedrals, and Bloomsbury Organ Day. He has also performed on multiple BBC Radio 3 and Television broadcasts.

Daniel has also performed orchestral organ and piano with ensembles such as the Philharmonia Orchestra, and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. As a continuo player, he has appeared with Instruments of Time and Truth and the London Mozart Players. In addition to his role at Keble, he is organist to Campion Hall, and principal accompanist to Oxford Bach Choir. He is a multiple prize-winning Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, currently studying with Stephen Farr and William Whitehead.